Mirage [is]...a comic about life and how life and the people closest to you just absolutely suck sometimes. It's "adult" in a very real sense, in that it deals with heavy themes that resonate more with adults, not that it's full of blood and titties or whatever.

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[TMNT 1990 director Steve] Barron recognized the early Mirage issues as perfect storyboards. It's a shame no other filmmaker has.

Dude, you 'gon die before you can even make the distance to see the Earth's curvature.

This dude, actually have already flew on his own previous rocket.
Despite being puzzled by sheer idiocy of situation, I admire his bravery and desire to go out and get prove himself, which makes him much more, than most of those "arm-chair" conspirologists.

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If the earth isn't flat why does the Earth Turtle story exist in China, India and North America before they ever had any contact?

The part that confuses me is, what does the rest of the world have to gain by saying the world isn't flat, if it is supposed to actually be flat? Like thousands of years of everyone from scientists to laymen saying "the Earth is not flat" are just doing it to f**k with people?

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The part that confuses me is, what does the rest of the world have to gain by saying the world isn't flat, if it is supposed to actually be flat? Like thousands of years of everyone from scientists to laymen saying "the Earth is not flat" are just doing it to f**k with people?

The same thing that did not stop religions: people will believe what they want to, regardless of what other people saying.

People believed the earth was round as early as Aristotle, its a myth that flat earthers dominated public opinion before the enlightenment era.

The myth says it was until Christopher Columbus (1492), not as late as the Enlightenment era (18th century).

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Well there's something I've never thought I'd see in here. A thread about the Flat Earth Society

...I mean, what is even there to discuss here? It's a fact that the Earth isn't flat. So really, what compels someone to believe it is? I could see an illiterate person living in a village in a non-developed country believing that... but people in USA and Europe believing the Earth is flat in 2017?!

Unfortunately I think the ratio of actual believers to plain old trolls is probably a lot higher. I started this thread because I think it ties into the whole trend of FAKE NEWS that has encouraged people to deny any truths they find unpleasant or inconvenient.

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The part that confuses me is, what does the rest of the world have to gain by saying the world isn't flat, if it is supposed to actually be flat? Like thousands of years of everyone from scientists to laymen saying "the Earth is not flat" are just doing it to f**k with people?

Well according to this guy who was on an episode of The Joe Rogan Show, it's because if we think we're on a ball drifting through space, then we're more inclined to work and contribute to the economy?

Rogan, host of the impossibly popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, spent nearly an hour on the April 18th episode verbally jousting with frequent guest Eddie Bravo about whether or not Earth is flat. An hour! At one point Bravo, a third degree black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and conspiracy theory connoisseur, proffered the theory that "globalists," including NASA and the European Space Agency, aided by their godless acolytes in the mainstream media (MSM), had schemed together to perpetuate the idea that the Earth is round in order to enslave mankind.

A brief excerpt of their exchange:

Rogan: "Why not indulge the full realm of possibilities and not cling to the conspiracy every single time?"Bravo: "No. No. NASA can get pictures—they've been doing CGI composites this whole time…"Rogan: "Please answer my question. Forget about stating what NASA does. Please answer my question. Why do you always go toward the conspiracy? Why do you never consider the possibility…"Bravo: "Too many lies. Too many lies."Rogan: "But Eddie they're not the same people."Bravo: "It's all the same."Rogan: "So everybody's lying?"Bravo: "Yes. It's a global thing. They're all in on it."

Bravo, who repeatedly claimed to be "crazy" throughout the exchange to diffuse Rogan's counter-arguments, suggested that people are more easily controlled if they believe they're standing on a "ball" as opposed to a flat surface.

"You're on a ball," he said. "You're nowhere. Don't try to go anywhere. Just stay there and work."

The Earth, of course, is round, perhaps most famously confirmed by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew successfully circumnavigated the world on a voyage between 1519 and 1522. (Magellan himself died before completing the voyage.) Nevertheless, stories abound of so-called "flat Earth" proponents: In June 2016, an argument between a Canadian father and his son's girlfriend, who believed the Earth is flat, grew so heated that a fire broke out after a propane canister was flung into a nearby hearth. Several months earlier, in January 2016, celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson got into a "Twitter battle" with a rapper, B.o.B., over whether or not the Earth was flat.

"If you want to think the world is flat, go right ahead," deGrasse Tyson later said on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. "But if you think the world is flat and you have influence over others, as with successful rappers, or even presidential candidates, then being wrong becomes being harmful to the health, the wealth, and the security of our citizenry."

Motherboard has reached out to NASA and the European Space Agency for clarification on what, if any, role they may have played in misleading us into believing that we're living on a giant, round ball.

Update, April 20, 2017: The European Space Agency has categorically denied misleading people into believing the Earth is round, with a representative telling Motherboard that it "does not do this." NASA has yet to respond to Motherboard's request for comment.